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What happened with this answer (downvoted, mod-edited/improved, bountied (reward existing answer) and then mod-deleted?

This answer to "Alternative small mass payload transportation from the moon to L5 besides rail gun and mass driver?" was initially substantially down voted, probably in part because it was ...
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Do "calculate satellite orbits" questions need a canonical community wiki like Astronomy SE's "...find positions of the planets...and visualize them?"

I just wrote this answer to Orbit prediction for satellites using Kepler model which is a variation on an oft-asked question category about calculating orbits for artificial satellites (Earth-bound or ...
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Can other Q&A sites be a source for answers?

For example, a main useful one would be Quora. Are they considered reliable. What if the answer has sources. Then can we it or do we look at the sources? How about if it is unsourced?
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Providing good answers to closed questions

There have recently been some questions which have been closed for, I think, good reasons related to the likely intent of the person asking them inferred from the narrative pushed in the question ...
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Edit to an answer, adding more relevant information, rejected by author because it's "not their intent"

https://space.stackexchange.com/a/50284/6449 Someone commented below the above answer that it was missing information regarding the range of rovers using RTGs, so I edited that answer to include that ...
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Are "I suspect..." answers okay? What if we all started writing them?

I've just written the following comment: -1 because I have always found the "I suspect that..." format troubling when used in Stack Exchange answer posts....
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What is SE community attitude to accepting your own answers?

This help center states that answering your own questions is encouraged, and, if there's no other good answers, one can accept his/her own answer. This answer to a similar question suggests some ...
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When the real answer may only be in links within comments below the answer, what to do or say?

This answer to What radio frequencies were used by the Soviet space program circa 1961? (“Lost Cosmonaut” recording) contains a lot of relevant perspective, and is authored by a user who regularly ...
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Dummy answer and one in progress for the same question allowed?

Some questions have very complicated answers therefore the answer take time to write. I am sure that 2 people come up with the same answer often but one of them is outed on the time they put into ...
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How to view deleted users posts?

While looking up reaction wheel info I came across this question: Optimal placement of 4 reaction wheels? and would like to see if there is more from the user who is now gone?
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Getting an answer back after merging accounts

I answered this question, but at the time I had two accounts by accident and had to merge them. When I did so the account that survived was the one that was not credited with my answer leaving my ...
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Rescaling a picture when editing a post

Is there any simple way of changing the dimensions of a picture when adding it to a post? (Other than downloading and change it in an editor.) Sometimes the default size of the image I find is not ...
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